Lexington Insurance Co. v. Strayhorn

How courts have described this case

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• observing that specific-controls-over-general principal “applies only when overlapping statutes cannot be reconciled,” and construing statutes so as to avoid conflict
• instructing that to give effect to legislature’s intent “we look first and foremost to the words of the statute”
• observing that specific-controls-over- general principal “applies only when overlapping statutes cannot be reconciled,” and construing statutes so as to avoid conflict
• providing that we construe the statute’s words according to their plain and common meaning
• providing that we construe the statute = s words according to their plain and common meaning
• instructing that to give effect to legislature’s intent “we look first and foremost to the words of the statute”

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